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by mra2

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I would like to make a LARGE TABLE on 11 X 17 Landscape Paper. The boxes MUST be square (like 1/8") and I must be able to color them in!

Word 2000 only allows me 32 x 32 boxes. Publisher 2000 allows less. Excel I can seem to get square boxes in an Inch type dimension.

Anyone have any ideas? Other software recommendations, outside of Office 2000, are acceptable.

Thanks,
Alan
abramowitza@coned.com

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by thechas

Drawing or CAD software is the best way to accomplish what you want to do.

TurboCad from Imsisoft is fairly easy to learn and use.

You can download a 15 day free trial from them.

All my links to free CAD programs are dead.

Although you might give Source Forge a try.
www.sourceforge.net
They did have an open source CAD project.

Chas

by paul.cote

It doesn't get any easier than Excel.
You didn't mention how many boxes that you needed in that 11x17 space, but I can't imagine anyone using more than the 255 columns by 65,000 rows available.
When you place your cursor over the column headers and click to change the column width, the dialogue popup shows you the width. Simply select all of the columns, then change one and they are all the same. Do the same for rows. Format-Cells-Patterns gives you the ability to add colour.
Now I suppose you're going to want data in the cells. That could be done ... for a price.

by mra2

Unfortunately the boxes MUST be 1/4 inch square. This is difficult, perhaps impossible in Excel. The dimensions of the cells seem to be points. Thanks anyway...

by lornac

Please don't overlook WordPerfect. Compared to Word, WordPerfect tables are, and always have been, far superior. Don't knock them unless you've tried them.

The only limitation is that you can manually colour in the boxes, but you will need a spreadsheet (Excel or Quattro Pro) if you need the colouring to be conditional on cell content.

by lornac

My apologies - I didn't check thoroughly enough and someone has corrected me .

WordPerfect tables are limited to 64 columns, which won't be enough for your purposes (but it's still DOUBLE the number you can have in Word).

by mra2

I'm not about to go back to WordPerfect. I never liked it years ago! Sorry.....

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